Thanks Bandit. I'll keep in touch with LaCie's clearence corner. Hah! they have a 160 GB reconditioned LaCie Mini for $99. Just what I was looking for. Did you buy a "reconditioned". How is the quality?

Thanks Bandit. I'll keep in touch with LaCie's clearence corner. Hah! they have a 160 GB reconditioned LaCie Mini for $99. Just what I was looking for. Did you buy a "reconditioned". How is the quality?

I bought mine new for $150 CDN. I should have bought 2 at the time. I wouldn't worry about the 90 day warranty or the quality. The case is built better than a Mac mini.

I will likely swap the 160GB drive for a 500GB drive when the prices come down. Even though there is no fan in these models I plan on doing it. My room never gets very hot living in Canada. You could also add a fan if you really wanted to. I see no need, with the aluminum enclosure unless you are really working the drive hard for extended periods of time.

Thanks Bandit. I'll keep in touch with LaCie's clearence corner. Hah! they have a 160 GB reconditioned LaCie Mini for $99. Just what I was looking for. Did you buy a "reconditioned". How is the quality?

I bought mine new for $150 CDN. I should have bought 2 at the time. I wouldn't worry about the 90 day warranty or the quality. The case is built better than a Mac mini.

I will likely swap the 160GB drive for a 500GB drive when the prices come down. Even though there is no fan in these models I plan on doing it. My room never gets very hot living in Canada. You could also add a fan if you really wanted to. I see no need, with the aluminum enclosure unless you are really working the drive hard for extended periods of time.

No, I don't really care if it has a fan or not. My room stays pretty cool, I mean c'mon...I'm in Wisconsin

I saw that too. That LaCie mini at $119 does NOT have any USB ports. It is all Firewire. I nearly hit the big red button when I started poking around a bit at the specs and didn't see anything about USB. When I looked at the picture, there were 2 firewire ports and a power port._________________Folding for a cure for Team Mac OS X, the number one Mac Folding team in the world!

I saw that too. That LaCie mini at $119 does NOT have any USB ports. It is all Firewire. I nearly hit the big red button when I started poking around a bit at the specs and didn't see anything about USB. When I looked at the picture, there were 2 firewire ports and a power port.

That is fine for me. As far as I know, the LaCie Mini with hub is a bit more expensive, and I don't need a built in hub in my external drive. I am also glad it is firewire, i've heard this is faster than USB 2.0.